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In the spring of 1983, a young woman named Gail Lynn Mathews, a 23-year-old female, vanished from the Seattle area. Her disappearance on April 10, 1983, was a prelude to a grim discovery that would eventually untangle a thread in one of the most notorious serial murder cases in American history. Mathews, who had moved to Washington from California as a teenager, was navigating a difficult period in her life. After a separation from her husband, with whom she shared a daughter, she was living a t ...Read More
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Gail Mathews
Female
Native American / American Indian
Seattle
WA
1983-04-10
23
Gail
Mathews
11/09/2025




